Jennifer Henderson: New Communications Liaison

“Raising High & Saying Goodbye: Rebecca Radillo is a graduating senior majoring in English. She currently has an internship with TheDailyFandom.org where she writes on pop culture with an academic lens–she already has an article published analyzing Doctor Strange through an Orientalist and disability lens. She will be attending Boston College in the fall for…

A week from today Professor Margaret Soltan will be delivering the first in a series of three lectures at the Georgetown Public Library.  Full information, including registration information for this event (free and open to the public), is below!  Professor Margaret Soltan The lectures will be offered on three Saturdays:Lecture One: Winter kept us warm:  Poetry…

From time to time GW English News will spotlight recent publications by English department faculty. Today we offer a glimpse of Sick Economies: Drama, Mercantilism, and Disease in Shakespeare’s England, a critically lauded study published by Early Modernist Jonathan Gil Harris. A native of New Zealand, Professor Harris joined our department as a full professor…

Paula Mejia (BA, Creative Writing/English ’13, MA, English ’14) “I WROTE A BOOK – WHO  KNOWS WHAT AMAZING THINGS YOU CAN DO, TOO” Paula Mejia started as an International Affairs major at GW, and then encountered our Creative Writing faculty — which changed everything.  Margaret Soltan talks to her about it. Since you graduated from…

“I think we need to be really mindful. This is not only historic, all of us in this room, but this is divine intervention at its most astonishing. I am of a generation where this would not only be impossible but illegal.” Alexandra Billings _________________________ Written By M.W. Bychowski _________________________ On Nov 23rd, 2015, I…

Please join the English Department in congratulating our very own, Professor Jennifer Chang, on her most recent accomplishments! Professor Chang is this year’s Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Reward Recipient! This prestigious award is given to a single US poet who has published a book of their poetry via a small publishing house….